ad infinitum

English

WOTD – 14 March 2016

The infinity symbol

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ad infinitum (“to infinity”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæd ɪnfɪˈnaɪtəm/
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪtəm
Hyphenation: ad in‧fi‧ni‧tum

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

Endlessly; for ever; neverendingly.

Translations

endlessly

Bulgarian: до безкра́йност (bg) (do bezkrájnost), безкра́йно (bg) (bezkrájno)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無限制 (zh), 无限制 (zh) (wú xiànzhì), 無休止地, 无休止地 (wú xiūzhǐ de), 不休 (zh) (bùxiū), 不斷地 (zh), 不断地 (zh) (bùduàn de), 不已 (zh) (bùyǐ)
Czech: do nekonečna
Dutch: in oneindigheid, voor altijd, in oneindigheid (nl), voor altijd
Finnish: ikuisesti (fi), loputtomasti, loputtomiin
French: à l'infini (fr)
German: endlos (de), ad infinitum (de)
Greek: επ' άπειρον (el) (ep' ápeiron)
Hungarian: végtelenségig, vég nélkül
Japanese: 無限に (ja) (むげんに, mugen ni), 際限なく (さいげんなく, saigen naku)
Korean: 영구히 (yeong-guhi)

Latin: ad īnfīnītum
Norwegian: i all uendelighet, uten slutt
Polish: nieskończenie (pl), do nieskończoności
Portuguese: ad infinitum (pt), infinitamente (pt)
Russian: бесконе́чно (ru) (beskonéčno), до бесконе́чности (ru) (do beskonéčnosti)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: бесконачно, инфинитивно, бескрајност, до бескрајности, безгранично, неодређено

Roman: beskonačno, infinitivno, beskrajno, do beskrajnosti, bezgranično, neodređeno
Spanish: al infinito, indefinidamente, sinfín (es)
Swedish: i all oändlighet, utan slut
Tagalog: walang hanggan, walang hangganan
Vietnamese: vô cùng (vi)

Latin

Alternative forms

in īnfīnītō, in īnfīnītum

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ad in.fiːˈniː.tum/, [ad ĩː.fiːˈniː.tũ]

Prepositional phrase

ad īnfīnītum

to or till infinity, to an unlimited extent, without restriction, everywhere, at pleasure

Descendants

English: ad infinitum
Portuguese: ad infinitum

References

in-fīnītus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
infīnītus ¶4 in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “814/3”
“infīnītus ¶2” on page 900/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Adverb

ad infinitum (not comparable)

ad infinitum; endlessly

Synonyms

infinitamente

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